Lightning inside a cloud?

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  1. Naga
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    I've been playing 1 hour and noticed some flashes, like a camera flash, happening outside. I wasn't bothered to look but when I went to sleep I saw what the flashes was, it's lightning. Inside the cloud and no thunder. Can anyone explain since I have no access to Internet on a computer to look it up myself. No sound from it, only light inside the cloud..

    Weird huh?
     
  2. PopIs_MyLife
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    Yea, weird :eek:
     
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    Two possibilities.

    The first is that the laws of physics have abruptly changed and life as we know will never be the same again.

    The other is that somebody is messing with a flashlight.
     
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    It's called heat lightning. Let me get a link.
     
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    Wait... I thought there were two possibilities. This makes a third...
    Since we suddenly went from two to three, I'm assuming the second possibility is correct and the laws of physics have changed to allow any number to be any number (two is also three, in this case.) But that would mean there aren't three possibilities, so we can't prove that the laws have changed...

    My head hurts O_O
     
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    Its called heat lightening but its not always caused by heat. What it is, when the upper atmosphere starts to cool over top of a warmer atmosphere, it causes what i believe is called inversion. What this does is, it literally bends light and sound waves which allow light waves to travel longer distances and it causes sound waves to bend upward. So the lightening you are seeing could be happens hundreds of miles away and you don't hear the thunder because the sound wave is being bent upwards and away from you.
     
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    Or you could just go to the fabulous link I shared with you all XD
     
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    The world is ending. Run as fast and as far as you can before it explodes :t
     
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    I agree
     
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    And I totally didn't brainwash you wait wut
     
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    Doomsday sign. or an idiotic blind camper who is toying with a flashlight thinking that he is in the forest
     
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